Railway-rail joint.



No. 688,430. Patented-Dc. |o,"|9m. E. M MccLEAnv.

RAILWAY BAIL. JUINT!v (Appummaud Apr.' e, 1901.)

(lo Model.)

H315 nonms versus maro-ur l UNITED STATES PATENT EEICE.

EDGAR MILTON MCOLEARY, OF BOONEVILLE, IOWA".

'RAILWAY-RAIL JoiNT.

SPECFICATION forming dart of Letters Patent No. ss,4so, atea Decemberio, 1961.

Appiicaiin inea April a. 1901.

To all whom t may concern? Be it known that I, EDGAR MILTON Mo- CLEARY,a citizen of the United States, residing at Booneville, in the county ofDallas and State of Iowa, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Railway-Rail Joints, of which the following is aspecification.

The object of my invention is to provide a railway-rail joint of simple,durable, and inexpensive construction in which the abutting rails arefirmly held against lateral movement relative to each other even thoughthe bolts for connecting the rails are loosened'.

. A further object is to provide a joint of this class in which theheads of the abutting rails are cut diagonally and at the point wherethe heads of two abutting rails meet. The web of the rail upon which thesaid heads rest is of substantially the same Width as the headsthemselves, thus preventing the possibility of the sides of the headbeing broken down by the weight of a train of cars passing over therails.

A further object is to provide a joint of this class in which only onefish-plate on the outer surface of the rails is necessary.

My invention consists in certain details in the construction,arrangement, and combination of the various parts of the device, wherebythe objects contemplated are attained, as hereinafter more fully setforth, pointed out in my claims, and illustrated in the accompanyingdrawings, in which- Figure 1 shows a vertical transverse'sectional viewtaken on the indicated line oc of Fig. 2. Fig. 2 shows in elevationptheabutting ends of two rails provided with my improved joint. Fig. 3 showsin side elevation the en'd of one of the rails. Fig. 4 shows a likeview'of a second rail designed to coact with the rail shown in Fig. 3 inproducing a railjoint, and Fig. 5 shows a horizontal sectional view oftwo abutting rails placed in position adjacent to each other and withthe fish-plate at the side of one of the rails.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, I shall first describe the endof the rail illustrated in Fig. 3. The reference-numeral 10 is used toindicate the head of the rail and rail indicated by thereference-numeral 11 vbase upon which it rests.

is of the ordinary size and shape and termisenai No. 54.841. (no modeloare Hush with the sides of the head of the' rail, and the web projectssome distance beyond the head of the rail and is of the same width tothe end. In the widened portion of the web is a vertical longitudinalslot 17, open at the end of the web. A harige-rail (indicated by thereference-numeral 18) is cut ed diagonally at 19 directly under the endof the web. The said web is provided with bolt; openings 20. These partsare so arranged that when the abutting ends of the rails are broughttogether the beveled ends of the railheads will engage and the heads 10will rest upon the web 16 at the point where it is widened to be ilushwith the sides of the head. Therefore the head 10 will rest upon asupport as broad and rm as itself, and obviously no amount of poundingby the wheels of the train passing over the joint can cause the smallend'of the beveled portion of the head to be broken down because of thefirm In devices of this class heretofore having diagonal ends and wherethe narrow edge of the end had no iirm support upon which to rest it isobvious that the said narrow end could be easily broken down by impactof the wheels of a train. Furthermore, the web 11 passes into the slot17 of the web 16, and thus obviously prevents lateral movements relativeto each other. The lower edge of the web 11 rests.. upon the top of theange 18, and hence has a firm and solid support.

The fish-plate (indicated by the referencenumeral 21) is ofsubstantially the ordinary shape, except that it is curved at 22 and 23to conform to the outwardly-bulged web of the rail and is provided withbolt-holes 24.

Assuming that the abutting ends of two rails constructed as abovedescribed are brought together7 a fish-plate 21 is placed on ICO theouter surface of the abutting ends of the rails and the bolts 25 arepassed through the bolt-holes, the heads of the bolts preferably beingon the inside of the rail, so as to leave a comparatively smooth surfaceon the inside. Obviously the abutting rails will be secured againstlateral movement by the web 11 entering the slot 17 of the web 16 andalso by the fish-plate 21. Furthermore, the end of the head 10 cannot bebent downwardly by any amount of pounding by ear-wheels or the like,because it rests firmly upon the enlarged portion of the web 16, andinasmuch as the end of one rail rests in or on top of the flange of theother rail the rails are not liable to stand in dierent planes, as theydo when the abutting ends are placed on other supports.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secureby Letters Patent of the United States therefor, is

1. An improved railway-rail joint, comprising in combination, arail-head 10, cut off diagonally, a web 11 and a flange 12 cut offdiagonally at some distance from the end of the web and a railcomprising the head 14, cut o diagonally, the web 16 having itstransverse dimension under the end of the head substantially the same asthe transverse dimension of the head, and said web being projected somedistance beyond the head and provided with a vertical, longitudinalslot, and a ange under the web, cut off diagonally at the end of theweb, and means for clamping these abutting ends together.

2. An improved railway-rail joint, comprising in combination, a head l0,cut off diagonally, a web 11, and a ange 12 cutoff diagonally somedistance from the end of the web, an abutting rail, comprising the head14 cut 0E diagonally the web 16, the transverse dimension of which underthe cut-off end of the head is substantially the same as the transversedimension of the head, and said web projecting aconsiderable distancebeyond the end of the head, said web having a vertical, longitudinalslot, designed to receive the web 11, and a ange 18, cut oh.` diagonallydirectly beneath the endof the web 16, and a plate 2l, shaped to fit thecontour of the web 16, and to lie parallel at its endsWith the Webs 16and 11, substantially as and for the purposes stated.

EDGAR MILTON MCCLEARY.

Witnesses:

F. W. KRUsE, Jr., CHAs. C. CooK.

